I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.